in reply to wishlist: die-on-failure for built-ins

While I agree that the return values from open() and chdir() should be checked, I can't agree that print() should be checked in the general case. There may be a few special circumstances where you would check it, but if confronted with a load of code saying: 
print "hello world\n" || die "goodbye cruel world\n";

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I think I'd want to strangle the author.

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Re^2: wishlist: die-on-failure for built-ins
by tlm (Prior) on Apr 20, 2005 at 04:47 UTC

    Typically I don't check print's return value, but there are situations in which it is important to do so. E.g. one approach (described in perlipc) for dealing with PIPE errors is to set $SIG{ PIPE } to 'IGNORE' and detect PIPE errors by checking the return value of print.

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